Edie Brickell Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I'm pagan.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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'Everybody thinks they’re doing the right thing, kid. All the time. It’s about the only rule that explains how fucked-up this universe is.' A wan smile crept across her face. 'Nobody is a villain in their own head, are they? We all know we’re doing the right thing, which is why we’re in this mess.'
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
